World Battlefronts: A SONG FROM THE CAUCASUS

TIME Correspondent James Aldridge last week cabled this dispatch from
the Soviet-Iranian Border.

Along these terrible roads Red Army units are moving toward one of the
many battlefronts. They have all been in battle before. Now they are
returning after resting up. There is cavalry among them, and it is the
first cavalry I have seen in this war.

Cavalry is the Russian winter weapon. Some of these horsemen were
operating with General Melnik the whole of .last winter some five
hundred miles behind the German lines. One of the officers told me
they...